The Management Blog

In The CFO Journal we talk to Chief Financial Officers from diverse sectors and backgrounds about their insights, experience, and advice for other professionals and aspiring CFOs. In this installment, Giulia George tells us about being a female executive at a fast growing Sydney startup. Who is Giulia George? Where: Local Measure is an independent software […]

Our Google spreadsheet timesheet add-on is perfect if you want to create more powerful employee time reports. Why? Real time business intelligence is fundamental for any organization, whether monitoring its financial status or employee productivity. Frequent, reliable reports offer short-term insights that can lead to long-term savings and growth. To help with this, Google Sheets […]

Embracing the API economy Ah, the joys of cloud computing! No hardware, less waste, reduced costs, remote access, automatic updates, and the list goes on. But the growing selection of solutions might have you feeling like you can have too much of a good thing. Today, small and medium businesses are juggling an average of 14.3 […]

Independent contractors (freelancers, the self employed, the gig economy, or however you refer to it) are expected to make up half of the American workforce within the decade. Growth is driven by employers looking for specialized workers on demand, and workers themselves who are willingly making the switch. Both parties must adapt to the change. […]

Is employee monitoring legal? Broadly, in the US, employee monitoring is legal and mostly unregulated. As an employer-provided computer system is property of the employer, they may listen to, watch, and read employees’ workplace communication and, in some cases, personal messages. What’s more, an employer’s stated policy on workplace monitoring might not be legally binding. […]

What makes a company a great place to work? We interviewed Sonia de Mier, from Great Place to Work, on how perks are helping SMEs become a better place.